On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West.

In Part 2 of this alternate history series, we ask: could today’s Polish military defend 1939 Poland against the German ...

For Poland, shadow of 1939 hangs over today’s events by Nick Hayes 09/01/2009 02/03/2012. Share this: ...

The war didn’t begin then. Rather, it took another half a year. Rumors started swirling that Hitler was eyeing Poland next. With French support, Britain promised on March 31, 1939, that if ...

POLAND 1939 The Outbreak of World War II By Roger Moorhouse. A wise (and divorced) friend once told me that remembering the ending is a way to forget the beginning. In war so as in love: When we ...

Six of these camps operated in Poland. Four of the six million Jews killed between 1933-1945 were murdered in death camps. Concentration camps were established in Nazi-occupied territory.

Adolf Hitler observes German troops crossing the Vistula River, near Chelmno, northern Poland, in September 1939. Historical memory is key to national identity.

Putin's claim that Hitler was "forced" to invade Poland is not accepted by historical evidence. Hitler broke Germany's non-aggression pact with Poland, signed in January 1934, under the guise of ...

WARSAW, Sept. 1, 1939 (UP) - President Moscicki proclaimed a state of war in Poland today after German airplanes had bombed Polish cities, including Warsaw, and German troops had smashed across ...

Poland's top diplomat has reacted with outrage to Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was "forced" to initiate World War II with the 1939 invasion of Poland ...